Leviticus 13:13 and its mishnaic parallel

Journal of Jewish Studies

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 18-25

  Ostrer, Boris ^a  

^a St Petersburg Society for Hebrew Studies

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EID: 60949559974     PISSN: 00222097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18647/2387/jjs-2002     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Although it is not important for the forthcoming analysis, we should note that Biblical leprosy must be distinguished from the disease called leprosy nowadays (the Hansen's disease). See, for example, E. V. Hulse, 'The Nature of Biblical Leprosy and the Use of Alternative Medical Terms in Modern Translations of the Bible', Palestine Exploration Quarterly 107 (1975), pp. 87-105
2. See C. Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, (London, 1968)
3. See A. Portsmann and R. Ritsena (eds), The Realms of Colour (1972); V. W. Turner, 'Colour Classification in Ndembu Ritual: A Problem in Primitive Classification', Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion (ASA Monographs, III; New York, 1966)
4. Milgrom notes that all the elements of this rite of passage symbolize life, including the live water and live birds and blood-like ingredients. J. Milgrom, Leviticus 1-16 (New York, 1991), p. 889
5. Perhaps not just reddish but the reddest; see Milgrom's commentary based on Mishnaic treatise Negaim 1:5 and Samaritan Targum on Ex 28:17-20 (Milgrom 1991, p. 788)
6. In late Jewish literature leprosy is viewed as a punishment for sinful behaviour. It would be interesting to compare this fact with the results of Douglas in her recent article (M. Douglas, 'Witchcraft and Leprosy', Man 24 (1991), pp. 723-36)
7. See the lengthy discussion in Milgrom, pp. 258-61. On the reasons for such seclusion see Milgrom, 'Israel's Sanctuary: the Priestly "Picture of Dorian Gray"', in Studies in Cultic Theology and Terminology (Leiden, 1983), pp. 75-84, and Y. Kaufmann, The Religion of Israel (Chicago, 1960), pp. 21-121
8. S. Talmon, 'The "Desert motif" in the Bible and Qumran Literature', in A. Altmann (ed.), Biblical Motifs, Origins and Transformations (Harvard University Press, 1966), pp. 31-61
9. K. Budde, 'The Nomadic Ideal in the OT', New World 4 (1895), pp. 726-45
10. J. W. Flight, 'The Nomadic Idea and Ideal in the OT', Journal of Biblical Literature 42 (1923), pp. 158-226
11. V. W. Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (Harmondsworth, 1974), ch. 5